EU agency backs Eli Lilly's Cymbalta for wider use

LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - The European Medicines Agency has recommended wider use of Eli Lilly's (LLY.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Cymbalta and privately-held Boehringer Ingelheim's Xeristar for generalised anxiety disorder, the drugs watchdog said on Thursday.

Recommendations for marketing approval by the agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) are normally endorsed by the European Commission within a couple of months. (Reporting by Michael Kahn)